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倒悬
dào​xuán

dire straits

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
倒悬 (倒懸) dào​xuán
dire straits verb
a figurative state of extreme hardship, misery, or critical danger
hang upside down verb
to hang or be suspended vertically with the top or head downward

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.177 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)